General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: Do you support military action against ISIS? [View all]TheKentuckian
(25,035 posts)the required air superiority for the espoused mission including Arab nations. Hell, Iran is next door, is friendly with the government, and is capable but we are still playing our games.
Add to that we are unwilling to actually do anything that would put the region in order and it seems beyond pointless, there will ever be wolves and radicals and we have no intent or will to break them.
It is crazy that many of the same folks that want to keep poking the bear are squeamish and outraged at Israel for doing what must be done to contain the crazies. No, most of the people aren't the crazies but enough of them are and they have enough influence "with more moderate factions" that they cannot effectively be separated.
One might despise Israel methods but they are able to wrap their minds around what is being dealt with and we are to interested in other toxic agendas, resource control, right wing economics, and naivete to do shit but shoot ourselves in the foot while destroying all we touch.
Maybe the martyrdoms would motivate the folks in the region to change paths and separate themselves from the radicals. We have the stop disregarding the batshit fundamentalism and warrior nature of the broad culture and we have to stop feeding the crazy in what we think of as unrelated efforts but they do not.